thu 06/03/2025

aleks sierz

aleks.sierz's picture
Bio
Aleks is author of In-Yer-Face Theatre and Rewriting the Nation, co-editor of theatreVOICE website, and works as a journalist, broadcaster and theatre critic at large.

Articles By Aleks Sierz

Alterations, National Theatre review - high emotional costs of ambition

Read more...

A Knock on the Roof, Royal Court review - poignant account of living under terror

Read more...

East Is South, Hampstead Theatre review - bewildering and unconvincing

Read more...

Unicorn, Garrick Theatre review - wordy and emotionless desire

Read more...

More Life, Royal Court review - posthuman tragedy fails to come alive

Read more...

Churchill in Moscow, Orange Tree Theatre review - thought-provoking language and power games

Read more...

… Blackbird Hour, Bush Theatre review - an unrelentingly tough watch

Read more...

A Good House, Royal Court review - provocative, but imperfect

Read more...

The Invention of Love, Hampstead Theatre review - beautiful wit, awkward staging

Read more...

The Legends of Them, Royal Court review - reaching out for serenity

Read more...

Expendable, Royal Court review - intensely felt family drama

Read more...

A Christmas Carol, Old Vic review - tidings of discomfort and noise

Read more...

Wolves on Road, Bush Theatre review - exciting dialogue, but flawed plotting

Read more...

L’Addition, BAC review - top billing for physical comedy duo

Read more...

The Buddha of Suburbia, Barbican Theatre review - farcical fun, but what about the issues?

Read more...

Reykjavik, Hampstead Theatre review - drama frozen by waves of detail

Read more...

Pages

latest in today

Help to give theartsdesk a future!

It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, ITV1 review - powerful d...

The story of Ruth Ellis’s execution in 1955 has found its own macabre niche in British folklore, and has been been the subject of several film,...

Album: Spiritbox - Tsunami Sea

Within the loud realm of metal, it often exists happily unbothered by the mainstream. And although a metal band going mainstream isn't always well...

Towards Zero, BBC One review - more entertaining parlour gam...

The BBC’s latest “cool” Agatha Christie adaptation has many...

Album: The Burning Hell - Ghost Palace

Cultural references run up the flagpole on Ghost Palace include Deep Purple’s “Space Truckin’” buskers covering Lynryd Skynyrd and Ed...

Mansfield Park, Guildhall School review - fun when frothy, c...

Let’s call it Jane Austen fit for the West End, but with opera singers. The fact that it also serves as a fun ensemble piece for students is also...

Chuck Prophet, Mid Sussex Music Hall, Hassocks review - the...

Forty years ago, Chuck Prophet was the Keith Richards-like guitar hotshot in Green On Red, peers of R.E.M. and among the raw country-punk...

Echoes: Stone Circles, Community and Heritage, Stonehenge Vi...

Stonehenge is about 5,000 years old; three photographic artists currently exhibiting in the visitor centre are all under the age of...

Album: Anoushka Shankar - Chapter III: We Return to Light

Chapter III: We Return to Light is an unashamedly gentle and soothing escape from a hectic world. The last in a travelogue ...